By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 6/17/2009
... but winter is long so I'm reveling in spring, rainy though it may be. This picture doesn't do justice to the roses. They bloom for such a short while. This was during a rare moment of sun yesterday afternoon:
And this lady was in the backyard three mornings in a row last week laying her eggs, before she wandered back into the pond:
By: Jennifer Thermes,
on 9/24/2008
Look at what popped out of the ground a week ago... baby snapping turtles! I'd never seen such a thing.
For about an hour, 8 or 9 of them slowly poked their heads out of a tiny hole in the grass, completely entangled together, and made their way one by one to the pond, in back. How did they know where to go?
We'd seen the mama laying eggs at the beginning of summer in a rotted tree stump, far from where the babies hatched. If they were from the same eggs then she certainly faked us out!
The arbor is beautiful!!!!
Thanks, Barbara! The hubby built it for me a few years ago as a Mother's Day gift, and the roses really took!
Hey, Firefox won't let me leave comments on your blog when it's set to "embedded." The nerve! :-O